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W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

It΄s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.



At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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